In this tournament, you’ll start small, conquering first a city and then zooming out gradually to battle for bigger and bigger territories until you conquer the entire planet. For my other similar tournaments, follow the links below.

*With apologies to BluU, who has run for some time an excellent series called "BluU's zoom into." Check it out.

waauw wrote:question: shouldn't you switch Alexander's empire and middle east? Seems to me the middle east is smaller than Alexander's empire.

Great question. With a lot of these maps it's hard to be totally sure about which is more "zoomed in" or "zoomed out."

If you look at the four edges of both maps, you'll see in fact that Middle East extends beyond Alexander's Empire in three directions:

North: ME extends to Georgia, whereas AE stops at ArmeniaSouth: ME extends to the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula, where as AE doesn't include Arabia at allEast: ME includes all of Pakistan, whereas AE only includes a tiny piece of modern-day Pakistan; according to Wikipedia, the "Gedrosia" territory corresponds with modern-day Baluchistan (which on the ME map is well to the west of the edge of the map).

Only in the West does ME stop at Istanbul where AE extends to include Greece.

So, I think I'll keep it the way it is. But as you can see I had to do some pretty thorough research to make sure I had things in the right order : )